Yeah that is what I meant.
Hope your new job treats you well!
Can I ask you these questions?
1. Did you (or do you) live alone through LL?
2. If you had some kind of medical problem (like flu or some other bodily infection) what would you do in your state? Do you think you would be able to go by yourself to urgent care or something?
3. Have painkillers caused you any kind of bad effects like drowsiness at work or while walking?
4. Important question - How covered are you with your insurance (from your employer) while doing LL? If you were to freak out and call 911 over some strange nerve pain and they run a bunch of tests would you have to pay out of pocket? If you (God forbid) fracture your nail while walking or climbing down stairs and they needed to replace your nail (not Dr D but some other surgeon near you) would it be covered by insurance? What about normal things like flu? I am asking because insurance providers don't tend to cover problems that arose due to LL. I am sure you would have done ample research as you are a very thorough individual. Please enlighten us.
5. Has LL been more diffcult or easy as per your original expectations?
Thank you!
My Femur Stryde LL (with Dr. Debiparshad) diary
Quote from: cena on September 08, 2019, 01:25:46 PMYeah that is what I meant.
Hope your new job treats you well!
Can I ask you these questions?
1. Did you (or do you) live alone through LL?
- yes
2. If you had some kind of medical problem (like flu or some other bodily infection) what would you do in your state? Do you think you would be able to go by yourself to urgent care or something?
- Even I don't know what would I do, I will e screwed for sure with infection while doing LL. I will try to call uber and somehow reach to urgent care or call a friend. if it is emergency like fall down etc. I will dial 911 I think.
3. Have painkillers caused you any kind of bad effects like drowsiness at work or while walking?
- Yes, it is obvious, you should know this already reading diaries,
4. Important question - How covered are you with your insurance (from your employer) while doing LL? If you were to freak out and call 911 over some strange nerve pain and they run a bunch of tests would you have to pay out of pocket? If you (God forbid) fracture your nail while walking or climbing down stairs and they needed to replace your nail (not Dr D but some other surgeon near you) would it be covered by insurance? What about normal things like flu? I am asking because insurance providers don't tend to cover problems that arose due to LL. I am sure you would have done ample research as you are a very thorough individual. Please enlighten us.
- nobody can answer this question clearly, the only way to know is I think to find out when something happens, that is when you will know what insurance will do for you what it will not, it may also depend on many other actors i think ( e.g. kind of insurance, kind of issue faced, state you are n etc). I don' think ANYBODY can answer this question like that in black and white.
5. Has LL been more diffcult or easy as per your original expectations?
- Bcoz I wanted to work while doing this, fallen774 was my baseline. If I compare my experience verus his - mine has been much less physically painful than expected, but more mentally challenging and than expected. He had so many pain challenges 911 call etc things - nothing for me, but work wise I have been unable to do even 10% of my original pre-LL level work and can get fired, I rarely go to office and only do some work from home (I am sure there are rumours/bitching going on) , only think that may save me are - i) my manager is new and my ex manager had given me best performer rating to me before leaving so she may have a chat with me before firing, ii) I had deliberately started doing work from home months before LL so that it becomes normal in people's eyes that even if I am not in office they think I am working from home. But I am ready to get fired if it comes to that, in fact I already have other career plans. I don't know how fallen774 was able to go to work in wheelchair (with precise) and work just like that, maybe it is nature of work, mine is very stressful supply chain management work involves attending/hosting 100s of meetings. callls, 100s of devilries a day, answering 100s of emails a day, his was I believe more of a sole desk job writing code - I don't know - but for me I don't think you can do normal office work while doing LL.
My advice to anybody would be to follow Purushrottam's exmaple. Bring family members with you, it helps. and quit your job, LL is something that you want to devote your 100% to.
Thank you!
Yet another disappearance? I hope you are alright lalbadshah. I was worried you were doing too much during LL.
I disappeared because I was busy, would have been back anyway. I had stopped at 2 inches (I wanted to focus on my career more) and am almost consolidated based on my last visit 2 days back to dr. D. I am back here suddenly now because I need urgent input from experienced folks. I had stopped lengthening on 9/22 and from then till now I have had no pain, walking well walking up down stairs etc. now suddenly the day I came back from visit with Dr. D 2 days back, next morning I woke up with unbearable (9/10) pain on joint of right side hip, as the day went by and with pain medicine it was gone and I was walking etc fine but again at night unbearable pain and now I am on bed with high pain. I am wondering what happened on that day (10/9) and these are the list of things that took place - i) for the first time in 80 days I forgot to take my xarelto (blood thinner) in a hurry to catch fight in morning, so had t take it in the evening and have been taking in evening from last 2 days , ii) the security (I chose manual pat down) at airport might have done something because they did too much patting on my thigh, iii) something ele, like x-ray etc. exacerbated something? any idea what might have happened? I will wait till tomorrow and if the pain does not go I will go to local hospital. I just hope it is not blood clot or fat embolism or compartment syndrome or anything of that serious sort.
and at the VERY beginning of my diary, at the very start I had written that based on my workload and other things, sometimes I will not post anything for weeks and sometimes will post multiple responses in a day, so if you chose to ignore what I declare at the beginning and start making guesses then it is not my fault.
If I was in your situation I would call and email my doctor first and if he is not available or if he advises it, I would either go to the emergency appointmemt of an orthopedist or to the emergency of a hospital directly.
Yeah man you should be talking to Debiparshad or Ronnie.
Quoteand at the VERY beginning of my diary, at the very start I had written that based on my workload and other things, sometimes I will not post anything for weeks and sometimes will post multiple responses in a day, so if you chose to ignore what I declare at the beginning and start making guesses then it is not my fault.
Okay man chill out. You are right and a man of your word. Happy to see you posting.
Are you on H1B LalBadshah?
Quote from: Lalbadshah on October 12, 2019, 12:59:43 AMand at the VERY beginning of my diary, at the very start I had written that based on my workload and other things, sometimes I will not post anything for weeks and sometimes will post multiple responses in a day, so if you chose to ignore what I declare at the beginning and start making guesses then it is not my fault.
Thank you for making this diary, Lalbadshah! How much money in total (including living costs, everything) would you budget to do femur leg lengthening with your doctor?
Quote from: Lalbadshah on September 01, 2019, 06:47:01 AMMy thought on walking -
I wanted to share my thought on walking. The reason being - before doing LL I had read conflicting things in this forum on whether walking during LL is good or bad. My personal opinion and observation is - walking is good and in fact necessary (else you may become like vegetable and may have bad side effects) but at the same time I think it is important not to get overenthusiastic and walk too much everyday. With the power of stryde it is easy to abuse it by walking too much. I think walking too much may actually affect healing process adversely and put unnecessary strain on your body. This is my theory. Now if you ask how much is too much? I have no definite answer. I will say too much = what normally you would not do. just because you think walking will help you recover faster (this is prevalent opinion and I am not saying it is right or wrong, that is not what I am discussing here) do not go for like 4-5 sessions of long walks during the day, which normally (when you were not doing LL) yo would not do. Just keep it normal, walk just as much as you would walk normally (pre-LL). Again, this is my personal opinion, not a medical advice, I am not a doctor 
For people who do not live near Las Vegas anyway, what do you feel are the biggest advantages of Dr. Debiparshad over Dr. Mahoubian? Thanks!!!
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